The 2020 NZCS Biennial General Meeting will be held via Zoom video conference on 3 September 2020.  Details to join the virtual meeting will be sent to members shortly before the event.

The Society warmly encourages every member to attend, or to nominate a proxy if unable.  All nominations and notices of motion must be submitted to the Secretary no later than three weeks prior to the meeting.

The 2018 Biennial General Meeting will be held at 16:30-17:30 on Thursday, 6 September, at the National Library of New Zealand's Tiakiwai Auditorium (Aitken Street entrance, corner Molesworth & Aitken Streets, Wellington). 

The new Executive and Committee Members will be voted in at this time; nominations for positions should be made in writing to the NZCS Secretary no later than three weeks before the meeting.  Members not able to attend in person may submit a postal/email vote or nominate a proxy to attend and vote in their stead no later than seven days before the meeting.

In celebration of 40 years as a society (1971-2011), NZCS hosted a gathering at the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor in Wellington on Saturday, February 19, 2011. 

Mairi Clark presented Cartography in NZ Since 1931 - PDF Slideshow in 5 Parts.

Read more to view the photo highlights.

With so much uncertainty around COVID-19's impact in the weeks and months ahead, the NZCS and GeoCart Committees have made the difficult decision to cancel GeoCart'2020.  Rather than wait for 2022, a special GeoCart conference will now be held in April 2021.  Please watch this page and the GeoCart website for more details coming soon.

Both committees wish to thank everyone for their continued support of the GeoCart conferences. Although we must wait a bit longer before coming together again, GeoCart'2021 will be just as fantastic as 2020 would have been.

Kia kaha.  Stay safe and well.

The 47th annual ANZMapS conference -- Mapping in Action -- will be held 24-25 September 2019, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

This year's sessions will feature the latest student presentations, an inaugural prize for best presentation, the awarding of ANZMapS' "Dorothy Prescott Prize", and an afternoon session and guided tour of the collection with the NLA map curators.

Registration is now open.

The New Zealand Cartographic Society is proud to announce a Map Design Workshop (MDW'2018) to precede GeoCart'2018. It will be held 3-4 September, 2018, at the VUW Kelburn Campus (Kirk Building).

Registration is now open.  Attendees of GeoCart'2018 on a Full 3-Day ticket are eligible for a $50 workshop discount.  Please visit MDW'2018 for more information.

The Australian and New Zealand Map Society will be hosting a Map Conservation workshop preceding GeoCart'2018.  It will be held the afternoon of 4 September at the National Library of New Zealand.

Registration is now open.  Please visit ANZMapS Map Conservation for more information.

The 45th conference of the Australian & New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS) will be held 22-23 May 2017 in the CBD and at the University of Melbourne. This event will be an affordable hands-on and scholarly experience, with one day of practicals and one for presentations/papers.  Registration is now open for Mastering Maps.

The 8th National Cartographic Conference GeoCart'2016 and 4th ICA Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania will jointly convene in Wellington on August 31 - September 2, 2016.  The conference will hosted at the outstanding facilities of the National Library of New Zealand.

June 10th is the last deadline to submit abstracts or papers for the conference.  Registration will soon be open for the event.

As part of the Australasian Rare Book Summer School, two free public lectures will be held in Wellington in January 2015, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington and the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.

Mapping the World through Time
Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Asst. Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services, Stanford University Libraries
27 January 2015, 5.30pm-6.30pm | Tiakiwai (lower ground floor), National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, Aitken Street entrance.

Mapping texts: Using GIS to understand the geographies in large collections of text
Ian Gregory, Prof. of Digital Humanities, Lancaster University
29 January 2015, 5.00pm-6.00pm | Stout Research Centre, Room 203, Victoria University Kelburn campus.

The seventh National Cartographic Conference, GeoCart'2014, 42nd ANZMapS Conference, and third ICA Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania will jointly convene in Auckland on September 3-5, 2014.  The conference will once again be held at the outstanding facilities of The University of Auckland (NZ). 

July 7th is the last deadline to submit abstracts or papers for the conference.  Registration is now open for this event.

Three major NZCS and ICA-related conferences and workshops were held in August and September of this year: GeoCart'2012, the Thematic Map Design workshop (preceding GeoCart), and the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop.  All were successful events.

Please refer to Cartogram 73 for reports and some photos from the events.  The ICA Commission on Mountain Cartography website also has a report and other materials from the workshop held at Taurewa, Tongariro National Park. A post-workshop collection of papers is to be published in 2013.

The sixth National Cartographic Conference, GeoCart'2012, and second ICA Symposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania will be hosted at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) on August 29-31, 2012.

Also, the 8th ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop, will be held at Tongariro National Park (NZ), September 1-5, 2012.

Registration is now open for both events.

There were 188 entries from 33 countries in this year's Barbara Petchenik International Children’s Map Competition in Tokyo. New Zealand’s own 9-year-old Barnaby Blampied from Matakana School won 2^nd place in the 9-12 years age category with his marvelous map entry entitled "A Turtle’s Tear: Our Plastic Oceans".  This is fantastic result and a hearty congratulations to Barnaby!

Barnaby's map and the other NZ winners can be viewed on the Children's Map Competition Winners page.

NZCS is proud to once again host the New Zealand Children's Map Competition. Winners will become New Zealand’s entries for the international Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition 2019 in Tokyo in July. Further information may be found in the Competition Guidelines.

Entry deadline is 22 March 2019.

Thanks to all of the students who entered the New Zealand Children’s Map Competition 2017. We received over 250 entries and the judges awarded First, Second, and Third Place prizes in three age categories. First and Second Place winning maps will represent New Zealand at the international Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition.

The winning entries are visible on the Children's Map Competition Winners page.

The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International Cartographic Association in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice president of the ICA and cartographer who worked through her life with maps related to children. The aim of the contest is to promote the creative representation of the world in graphic form by children.

NZCS is proud to host the New Zealand competition again.  Registrations for 2015 are now open.  

Roger Smith and the Geographx team have been interviewed by OneNews about their role in the making of the world's biggest atlas, Earth Platinum.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/giant-atlas-kiwi-connection-video-4555417

You can also listen to Roger describe the work in more detail on Radio New Zealand National Afternoons:

RNZNational-a_giant_atlas.mp3